Martensdale High School - Martins Tale Yearbook (Martensdale, IA)

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CLASS HISTORY The Senior Class of '45 started its Freshman year with twenty-one, nine joined us from other schools, with twelve having graduated from the 8th grade. Mrs. Brown was our class sponsor and janette Martens was our class president and she also represented the class as candidate for Homecoming queen. Helen Carley, Phyllis Hill, Eugene Cameron, and james Bussanmas left us before the year was over and Laura Beals and Rena Faro joined us. We started our second year with nineteen students from our liresh- man year left. Mrs. Brown was again our class sponsor, we had two class parties under her supervision. Rachel Martens was our class president and Betty Eagen represented our class as queen candidate. Beverly Brown, joan Bussanmas, Rena Farr, and Thomas johnson left us during the year and Veda Deaton and jack McCauley joined us. ln l943 we started our junior year with l6 energetic students. Mrs. Cramer was our class sponsor, janette Martens our class president and also queen candidate. We lost Veda Deaton, Laura Beals, and Donald Weaver and gained Luella jarman and james Dooley. On October I9, our class presented our class play TEA TOPER 'l'AVERN, to a large audience. The proceeds were used to entertain the Seniors at their annual junior and Senior Banquet in Des Moines. Thirteen ambitious Seniors embarked on the last lap of their high school career. Marjorie Crawford and Kenneth Crow left us soon after school started. Mr. Cramer was our class sponsor and Donald Deileck class president: Lyle Sears, vice-president: and james Dooley, secretary and treasurer. Betty Eagen was our candidate for queen. We had our class pictures taken january l7th at Launspach's. We also had a farewell party for Francis Hendrickson on january l7th, who was called into the service on February IZ. Rachel Martens, Donald DeHeck, Gerald Millican, and janette Martens are the only ones in the class who have had all their schooling at Martensdale. Our class play, WHERE'S GRANDMAPH, was given on April 25. Sneak day was May 2. Class day was May 4. Baccalaureate was May 6. Graduation was on May 9. .18

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s:o1nx1eri4x1:n1o1o1o:a oi CLASS PROPI-IECY One afternoon as I returned home from work, I found a telegram on the doorstep. Opening it I read the following: MEET ME AT THE STA- TION AT 5:00 OCLOCK: DONALD DEI-IECK. I knew that Don was in the Navy so I decided that he was home on furlough or had received a Dishonorable discharge. Anyway I met him and took him up to that popu- lar apartment on Pleasant Street. As we expected we found Audrey and Iona busy writing letters. However, they put them aside and went down- town with us. Don and I started talking about old times and we began wondering where our old classmates were. We decided to take time off the next day and find as many of them as possible. We found Gerald Millican sooner than we expected as he was in the news reel of the World-Series playing second base for the Yankees. Gerald owned a large ranch which he op- erates while not playing ball. We learned that Lyle was his foreman, so we decided to visit Gerald at his ranch. When we arrived, we found not only Gerald but also Lyle and his wife, whomxwe know better as Miss Janette Martens. lncidentally, Audrey accompanied us as the official Mrs. Delleck. janette and Lyle had just received a telegram from Francis Hend- rickson who is now a sergeant in the army. His wife and children live in New York. After we had eaten our supper, Betty Eagan phoned Gerald from llollywood where she is a popular movie star. Gerald told us that Rachel was playing basketball for the A. l. B. of Des Moines. We phoned Rachel and she invited us to the game that night. They were playing the Pepsi-Cola Girls. To our amazement, we found Mary Ellen Lee in the Pepsi-Cola Line-up. She had a good job with the Bell Telephone Company. Rachel told us that Delores Berry was also at- tending the A. I. B. where she had set several speed records in typing. Delores said that Luella, now Mrs. Strable, lived on a farm near St. Charles. The Strables were raising purebred jersey cows, not to mention five children. We learned from Luella that Cramer was still roaming the country looking fort his lost property, namely a duck. She said he wouldn't roam far though, because he had been cut down to an A card since he quit teaching at M. H. S. -----11c1f'-1'-1f-A--- 9